Daily Sceptic technology expert Dr R P is back with his top tips on how to keep your privacy and stay in control online in 2026. With Big Tech increasingly colluding with governments, such advice is needed more than ever.
Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah highlights a frightening possibility: that lithium batteries could be programmed to explode. Yet another reason to avoid Chinese EVs, says the Daily Sceptic's robotics expert.
Brits are flocking to VPNs to dodge the Online Safety Act, but Dr R P, a robotics scientist, warns that creating an internet that's genuinely censorship-free is going to be hard.
The UK Government is making itself a laughing stock in its use of Snoopers' Charter laws to end Apple's encrypted Advanced Data Protection privacy service. Fortunately, there are alternatives.
Labour's busybodies have demanded that Apple allows them to spy on the data of users around the world. If Apple complies with this extraordinary request the security and privacy of all of us will be undermined.
China has been caught spying on America using 'backdoors' in Western technology that the U.S. Government mandated telecom companies to put there. It's time to close these self-imposed weaknesses, says Dr. R P.
With 8.5 million computers knocked out worldwide by a simple faulty software update, the CrowdStrike debacle throws into stark relief the serious drawbacks of a centralised, digitised world, says Dr. R P.
Microsoft has announced a new feature that takes a screenshot of your activity every few seconds and saves it as a permanent record. What could go wrong, asks technology expert Dr R P.
Dr RP, who has a PhD in Robotics, argues that the increasing politicisation of basic infrastructure, with financial services being withdraw from an increasing array of people and companies, poses a threat to democracy.
The rise of 'smart' technology that responds, not to the user but to external commands poses a serious threat to freedom, says Dr R P. However, since all technology is 'hackable', there is hope.
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